[Talk-GB] OSM UK address project: tags

[Tom Hughes]

On 22/12/2021 14:57, Mark Goodge wrote:

> Postal addresses are location specific. There is no global standard. So 
> for UK postal addresses, we have to use UK specific formatting, for US 
> addresses we have to use US specific formatting, etc.

Well I don't think we should be tagging postal addresses
anyway - certainly I never thought of addr tags as being
specifically postal addresses. Rather I thought of them as
being a geographically logical address for somebody trying
to find the addressed place.

If I am trying to find https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/58704865
then I want to know it's in Bumble's Green, not that the post town
is Waltham Abbey. Only the Royal Mail care about which delivery
office delivers the mail to it.

In any case without consulting the RM database it's mostly
impossible to know what the official postal address is, and
that isn't available to us.

Tom

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